Episode
3.16
Hallow
Hills—
Abby felt
the cold sheets against her body as she rolled over looking for the alarm
clock, not on this side of the bed. She rolled over again, and almost on top of
He opened
his eyes slowly, “morning.” his voice was dry.
Abby smiled
as she finally saw the clock, “Go back to sleep, it’s only 4:17.”
“You’re not
leaving are you?” he asked as his eyes met with hers.
She shook
her head, “No, but you should get some more sleep.”
“I don’t
need it.” he brushed her ragged hair from her eyes before kissing her.
“Yes you
do.” she broke the kiss.
“All I need
is you.” he pulled her closer to him, her body against his.
She kissed
him on the mouth, then down to his neck, and finally nibbling on his ear.
Siobhan’s
Apartment
Dan walked
out of the bedroom, his head pounding, his sight blurry. He followed the path
to the kitchen. Something was different about it this morning. He couldn’t
figure out what though. He found it and that’s when he realized what was wrong.
It wasn’t his kitchen.
Dan
snatched the bottle of pills, “I guess it did.” he started to fiddle with the
child proof lid when someone began banging on the door.
Siobhan sighed
and went to get it when Dan stopped her.
He walked
across her living room, wearing only his boxer shorts and opened her front
door, to Becker.
“Shit.” Dan
muttered and turned to Siobhan, who stood talk, arms crossed against her chest.
“I have
nothing to say to you Shamus. So leave.”
Becker
looked from Dan to Siobhan and back again, “Well I have something to say to
you.”
“I’m gonna
leave.” Dan announced before practically running to the bedroom in search of
his clothes.
Siobhan sat
back down at the counter and reached for her coffee, “Say it and get out.”
Becker came
in, closed her door and sat across from her, “Siobhan, I love you. My past is
just that, my past.”
“You lied
about who you are.” She shook her head, “Are you even a real cop?”
Before he
could answer, Dan came out carrying his shoes, “Um I’ll see you at the station
later.”
Becker
watched the younger man leave before looking back at Siobhan, “Yes, I am.
Listen to me. Sally isn’t the woman I love. You are.”
She stood
up and went into the kitchen. “Just leave. You’ve said your peace, go.” she
opened a box of oatmeal cookies. “Its too late Shamus, or Joe. Whatever your
name is. Its over.”
“Fine, but
this isn’t over. You may think it is, but its not.” He stood up and walked to
the door, “You’re my heart Siobhan.”
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Hotel Room 15
He smiled
and picked up the gun, loading the bullets. He lifted it up and pointed it
towards the wall and a picture he had taken of Abby and
“Time will
come, and
He picked
up the paper and looked at the social column, “Funny thing is, she’s engaged to
another man.”
He threw
the paper towards the wastebasket but missed, and didn’t care.
He turned
back to the picture, “I just need the location.”
“
“We’re done
talking John. I want you out, now.”
“And what
am I going to go?”
John picked
up the suitcase, “Fine, I’m leaving.” he went to the door and turned to look at
his wife, “But this isn’t over yet
Sean’s
Apartment
Sean
carried the box of furniture pieces into the apartment and put it down in the
living room. He looked around at the color of the walls, blue. They would have
to do.
He looked
around at all the boxes he had just removed from the storage unit he’d put them
in since his return from
He opened
the closet door and tossed them in the corner. He’d figure something out with
them soon.
He took a
box of dishes into the kitchen and started unwrapping them when the door
opened, “Uncle Sean? Are you here?”
Lysa walked
in, closing the door behind her.
“Hey babe.”
He came into the living room and immediately kissed her.
She pushed
him away, “Dad could come in at any minute.”
“So that
makes it even more exciting.”
“Sean.” she
looked at him and then looked away.
“What’s
wrong?” he put his hands on her waist before leaving over and kissing her neck,
“Tell me baby girl.”
“What does share
mean?”
Sean pulled
away. He looked at her and finally sighed. “It means I have a group of friends,
who won’t look down on us.”
“I don’t
know, that seems kind of iffy.”
“It’s fine.
I promise.”
Abby and
Dan’s Apartment
Abby put
her key into the lock and said a silent prayer that Dan wasn’t up. She was not
ready to face him. She just really didn’t want him grabbing a gun and running
off to kill
As she
opened the door she found the living room clear as was the kitchen. She gently
shut it and then made a quick dash for her bedroom, almost knocking over a vase
on the way.
Dan
unlocked the front door and opened it slowly so it wouldn’t creak. He stuck his
head inside and saw Abby didn’t appear to be awake. Hopefully she slept in
since she had today off. He finally fully entered the apartment and closed the
door behind him. He started tiptoeing to his room, only to practically trip and
fall against her door. He luckily grabbed the doorframe and saved himself from
complete humiliation. He slowly turned the knob and jumped into his room.
About
fifteen minutes after Dan returned, both his and Abby’s doors opened. They
looked at each other as they both went into the kitchen wearing their pajama’s
the other assumed was from the other night.
“So big
bro, how was your New Years Eve?” She opened up the fridge and took out a
carton of milk.
Dan watched
her and noticed Ethan’s ring was gone. “It was alright, nothing eventful. And
what about yours little sister dear?”
Abby popped
back up and smiled, “Oh pretty much uneventful as well.”
“Where’s
the ring?”
Abby’s eyes
widened, “Crap.”
“You take
it off?” he opened a cupboard and took out a box of cereal.
“Yes, I
did. Its in my jeans I wore last night.”
“They
better have been on all night.” he warned.
She rolled
her eyes, “I’m a grown woman Daniel. What did you really do last night? Get
lucky?”
He turned
red, “I have no comment.”
Abby took a
sip of her milk, “Who is she?”
“No one you
know. So mind your own business. It was one night, I won’t be getting my heart
crushed.”
“You better
not be, I don’t want to come home to a pile of beer cans again.”
“Don’t
worry sis. I’ve grown up.”
Eric pulled
his car up to the curb, “I’m sorry we got stuck up there. I’m sure we’ll come
up with something.”
Cassie
sighed as she turned her cell phone back on and saw ten missed calls from
Maggie, “We’ll see if I survive going inside.” she held up the display.
“Yikes,
well if you need anything call.”
“Thanks.”
Cassie got out and walked to the door, turning to wave good bye to Eric.
She opened
the door and stepped inside, she smelled something from the kitchen and went
in, finding at least five dozen cookies scattered around the kitchen. “Mags,
you home?”
She flipped
open her cell and dialed Imagination Clothing.
Sean’s
Apartment
Lysa’s
watch beeped, “I gotta go, I told Dad I’d go help Grandpa with some stuff. I’ll
see you later.” she walked to the door.
“Bye, come
by anytime you want.” Sean called out as she left.
He sighed
she had found the list. She wasn’t ready yet he had to hold off.
He started
to unpack more stuff when his cell phone rang, “McKay.” he sighed, “Doc, she’s
not ready . . . No I won’t bring her tomorrow. Fine. Tonight, seven, I
understand. My apartment, yes. Bye Doc.”
He glared
at his phone for a moment before pushing the end button and turning it off.
Clay Sapp’s
Office
“So Mr.
Layden, what can I do for you today?” Clay Sapp asked as he sat down at his
desk with his paper coffee cup.
“But its
still an open investigation.”
“But for
how much longer?”
Clay took a
sip from his coffee cup, “I’ll see what I can find, but I don’t know how much
more I can find that they haven’t.”
Imagination
Clothing
Cassie
stuck her head in the door of the shop and realized it was pretty much dead.
This was not going to be good at all. Slowly she walked in and up to the
cash-wrap area. “Hey Mags.”
Maggie
looked up, anger forced her to frown and narrow her eyes, “Backroom, now Cass.”
Cassie
followed her sister and closed the door behind them, placing her purse on the
counter, “I’m sorry. I couldn’t get a cell signal.”
“Where the
hell were you? I was up all night going out of my mind.”
“And
Baking.” Cassie tried to crack a smile, “I was up at the Savoren cabin with
Eric. We were setting it up, so that, well so we could get you and Conner up
there.”
Maggie
shook her head, “What are you talking about?”
“Eric and I
were trying to get you two back together.” Cassie sat in the desk chair and
looked up at her sister, “We couldn’t get you two to talk on Christmas Eve, so
we figured, why not get them trapped together on New Years Eve. But instead we
got trapped.”
“What
happened between the two of you?”
“Nothing
Mags, Eric’s a college guy. I’m a high school girl. Nothing happened. Trust me
if anything did you’d be the first person I tell.”
Dan and
Abby’s Apartment
“Fine Dan,
don’t tell me about your mystery woman.” Abby rinsed out her glass and put it
in the dishwasher.
“Good,
cause I’m not going to.” Dan sat on the couch and turned on the TV and then his
play station.
“Veto!”
Abby yelled as she reached to turn the game system off.
“Oh come
on, Abs. Why not?”
“Cause I’d
rather watch TV then watch you play that stupid game.”
Dan made a
face and handed her the remote, “Fine, watch Crap.”
“I will.”
Abby said as she started flipping through the channels.
“Good.” Dan
sulked as someone began knocking on the door. “Let me get it. Maybe its your
ring.”
Abby turned
and flipped him off, just as he opened the door.
“Dad!” Dan
stepped back, and Abby saw her father with a suitcase.
“What’s
going on Daddy?” Abby asked as she got up.
“You’re
mother and I are taking a little break from each other.” he told them as he
carried the bag into their apartment.
“Oh really,
so why are you here?” Dan asked and was then greeted with a stomach smack from
his sister.
“Sam’s room
is empty, we never did find a use for it.” Abby pointed down the hall.
“Thanks
kids. You’re great.” John carried his bag to the room, leaving the siblings
alone.
“Dad left
Mom.” Abby said sitting on the arm of the chair.
“Mom,
probably kicked him out.” Dan replied.
“What could
be the reason?”
Dan
shrugged, “I’m gonna find out.”
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Hotel Room 15
“You were
NEVER my husband.”
“Now, now.
Would you want your precious Abby to hear you say something like that?”
“An Ice Pick
through the heart, just like Kathryn Layden right?”
“Stay away
from us
“Mom, you
home?” Dan called out as he entered the house and removed his jacket and
gloves.
Dan ran to
the stairs, “Mom, don’t get that drastic. Tell me why is Dad not living her
anymore.”
Lydia
sighed as she came down the rest of the flight and started towards the kitchen,
“He’s in love with Laura Davis.”
Dan shook
his head and tried to keep up with her, “Explain. I think I lost a few pieces
of this puzzle.”
Lydia
opened the cabinet and took out a bottle of Bailey’s Irish Crème. “High School
Sweethearts.”
“But I
thought you and Dad were.”
“Ha! Laura
was his first love. He wanted to marry her, to have kids. But her mother forced
her to break up. So I snatched him up and won him as my own.” She opened the
bottle and poured some into a nearby glass.
Dan shook
his head, “Mom, I’m sure you and Dad can work this out. You’ve been married for
years.”
“Yes, that
we were. Too bad its over.”
“Mom, its
not over unless you want it to be over.”
Sean’s
Apartment
“Lysa, I’m
sorry I called you to come back, but one of my friends is anxious to meet you.”
Sean told her as he handed her a glass of soda.
“Its
alright, Dad’s not home so he’ll never miss me.”
“Good.”
Sean leaned in to kiss her but someone began knocking at the door. “That’ll be
Doc.”
Sean opened
the door, “Hey Doc, come on in.”
Sean moved
out of the way and Dr. Clint Nevada walked in, “You must be Lysa.” He smiled,
revealing his dimples.
Lysa
blushed, “I am.”
“Sean’s
said only good things about you.”
“Like
what?”
Clint’s
smile grew bigger, “That you’re the best he’s ever had.”